After Nature: English Kinship in the Late Twentieth Century
After Nature: English Kinship in the Late Twentieth Century
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自然之后：二十世纪后期的英国亲属关系
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1992
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M. Strathern
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M. Strathern
尽管亲属关系对英国社会人类学的发展至关重要，但这是人类学家首次尝试将英国亲属关系置于文化背景中。《After Nature》以摩根1989年在罗切斯特大学的演讲为基础，挑战了西方亲属研究与社会研究分离的传统。玛丽莲·斯特拉森回顾了上世纪中叶人类学内外关于亲属关系的著作，并论证了中产阶级民间亲属关系模型与人类学亲属关系理论之间的连续性。她还展示了变化的概念化如何使过去的世界产生了现在的世界。置于个人选择之上的价值观，以及作为不言而喻的参照点的“社会”的消失，是不断发展的关于亲属关系和人与人之间联系的自然性的文化明确性的一部分。在生殖技术的进步引发了对亲属关系自然基础的质疑之际，《After Nature》及时地反映了这一点。
Central as kinship has been to the development of British social anthropology, this is the first attempt by an anthropologist to situate ideas about English kinship in a cultural context. Based on the Morgan lectures given at the University of Rochester in 1989, After Nature challenges the traditional separation of western kinship studies from the study of society. Marilyn Strathern looks back at mid-century writings on kinship, both within anthropology and outside, and demonstrates continuities between middle-class folk models of kinship and anthropological kinship theory. She also shows how conceptualisations of change have enabled that past world to produce the present one. The values placed upon individual choice, as well as the vanishing of 'society' as a self-evident point of reference, are part of an evolving cultural explicitness about kinship and the naturalness of connections between persons. After Nature is a timely reflection at a moment when advances in reproductive technology raise questions about the natural basis of kinship relations.